The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley -
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas Hutchinson (editor)
1935 - Oxford University Press, London ‘We look before and after,And pine for what is not;Our sincerest laughterWith some pain is fraught;Our sweetest songs are those that tellOf saddest thought.’

A finely bound and comprehensive edition of Shelley’s collected poetical works, with prefaces, postscript and notes on poems by Mary Shelley, and a preface to this edition by the editor, Thomas Hutchinson (the editor). Frontispiece from portrait of Shelley, 1819.Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) is considered one of the finest lyric poets in the English language, though his work received little recognition until generations after his death, when he became an important influence on Victorian and pre-Raphaelite poets.